Peggy Scott-Adams (born Peggy Stoutmeyer, June 25, 1948, Queens, New York) is an African-American soul and R&B singer. She is sometimes known by her former name as Peggy Scott, and billed as 'The Little Lady with the Big Voice'.
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She grew up in the small town Opp, Alabama. Throughout her early career, Scott toured with Ben E. King as a teenager and hit the Top 40 three times with "Lover's Holiday" (July 1968), "Pickin' Wild Mountain Berries" (November 1968), and "Soulshake" (February 1969) as a duet act with Jo Jo Benson. All of these singles were released by SSS International Records.
Not long after that, Peggy Scott had been out of the music industry since the late 1960s, and subsequently she was working as a lounge singer in Pensacola, Florida until she moved to California and married a Compton city commissioner in 1988.
She was then persuaded to return to the studio by singer/songwriter/producer, Jimmy Lewis. With his guidance, they recorded her solo debut album called Help Yourself released on October 22, 1996.
One of the Jimmy Lewis songs was a track about a woman complaining that her husband had romantic and sexual desires for another man. Released as a single the song, "Bill", initially just to blues radio stations, it also began getting airplay on Urban contemporary radio and soon gained most-requested status at several larger stations. It peaked at #87 on the Billboard Hot 100. The music video to "Bill" also became popular. The album, "Help Yourself" began selling well, making the Billboard 200 albums chart peaking at #72, #9 on the R&B chart and #1 on the Top Blues Albums chart.[1]
The release of Contagious later in 1997 also featured the hit single, "Spousal Abuse" which tackled the issue of domestic abuse in relationships. Her third album Undisputed Queen was released in 1999.[1]
Scott-Adams continued in 2000 with Live in Alabama & More which featured the ballad, "When I'm With You" and the dance track, "Sweaty Men." Both singles became hits. The next album was Hot & Sassy, and featured hit singles in "Mr. Right Or Mr. Wrong", "If I'm Still Not Married" and "Your Divorce Has Been Denied."
Her fifth album, Busting Loose was released in 2003. It featured the lead single, "If You Wanna Hear Me Holler, Lick Me Up Some Dollars." In 2006, she issued her first gospel album entitled God Can, And He Will. Her second gospel album entitled Back To The Roots was released in 2009 on her own independent label, Nora Records.[2]
Primarily taken from Allmusic, written by John Bush.